The first scientific research took place in 1969 and was published in 1970 in Science Magazine (which is one of the world's top academic journals). By my latest count, there have been 340 peer-reviewed articles published on TM, many of which have appeared in highly respected journals. For those unfamiliar with scientific publishing, peer-reviewed means that each article is subjected to scrutiny by independent reviewers who are authorities in their field. - Dr Norman Rosenthal in Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation, 2011, p14.

“John would have been the first one now, if he had been there, to recognise and acknowledge what Maharishi has done for the world and appreciate it" - Yoko Ono (2008) "This is one of the few things that has been given to me in my life that has real value to me." - Paul McCartney (2009)" “That was the main thing through the sixties I got into India. I think that was the ONE thing in my life, I could have done without everything else "- George Harrison (1987) "It gives me great pleasure to be part of this evening. I feel the aims of this charity [David Lynch Foundation which raises funds to teach one million at-risk children to meditate] are wonderful!" - Ringo Starr (2009)

"Everybody has a birthright to enjoy abiding peace and unbounded joy, which is the essential nature of his own soul. And I hold that everybody already possesse the capacity of enjoying it, because it is already there in the innermost recess of everybody's heart." -- Maharishi

It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought

Transcendental Meditation (TM): Mechanics of the technique

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Lake Louise, Canada (1968):

Suffering is dominating life every where tension stress and strain are increasing in every country whether it is an affluent country or a developing nation, but suffering is everywhere.

It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought.

The principle of TM is simple, being is bliss in it's nature, infinite happiness, mind is always moving in the direction of greater happiness, It is the experience of everyone, wherever the mind goes it goes in the direction of greater happiness.

And because the nature of inner being is bliss, infinite happiness, therefore the mind during TM takes that inward course in a most spontaneous manner.

In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind, we let the mind follow it's natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.

The technique is we take a specific thought witch suites us, it's called a mantra, or a suitable sound for us, witch we'll see from the trained teacher of TM.

And these teachers are found everywhere in the world. I have trained them properly, and they give a suitable word. And the man experiences the thought of that sound, and starts minimizing that thought, to experience the finer states of that thought, until the source of thought is fathomed.

The conscious mind reaches the transcendental area of being. So, from gross thought, to the subtle state of thought, to the subtler, to the subtlest state of thought. This is the path of TM, when the conscious mind reaches the bliss consciousness or transcendental consciousness, or pure consciousness, or the state of being.

Here in this state of being, the mind becomes soaked with energy, intelligence and great happiness. With it, it comes out and performs and experiences the world much better than before.